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Remember the good ole days of email forwards?  When people would forward you emails of funny pictures, attach huge videos, chain letters, and so on?  Well, thankfully it has become a dying trend thanks to media-sharing sites like Flickr and YouTube, and look-what-i-found-on-the-internet sites like delicious, digg, StumbleUpon,  and micro-blogs like tumblr and twitter.  Now the 'forwards" are opt-in, and if you are so good at finding cool stuff on the internet, you may even build up a following bigger than your small circle of friends.

 

Just when you thought we were entering a new utopia, I recently got a message from a "friend" on Facebook.  Yep, it was a type of chain letter.  With one click of a button, you can message all your friends with a default option is to REPLY TO ALL, allowing them to send a reply message to people they don't even know.  I do have to admit, it is a clever chain-mail preying off the fear of losing your precious Facebook account because it takes up too much space:

 

Today at 3:55pm
Reply Attention all Facebook members.
Facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated,
There have been many members complaining that Facebook
is becoming very slow.Record shows that the reason is
that there are too many non-active Facebook members
And on the other side too many new Facebook members.
We will be sending this messages around to see if the
Members are active or not,If you're active please send
to 15 other users using Copy+Paste to show that you are active
Those who do not send this message within 2 weeks,
The user will be deleted without hesitation to create more space,
If Facebook is still overpopulated we kindly ask for donations but until then send this message to all your friends and make sure you send
this message to show me that your active and not deleted.

Founder of Facebook
Mark Zuckerber